by Kimberly Houston | December 12, 2017 | General News, Medical
Studying how chemical or physical agents interact with our bodies to cause toxicity is fraught with challenges. Testing on human subjects raises ethical concerns, and studies in laboratory animals don’t always accurately mimic results seen in humans. Now...
by Alfred Poor | July 26, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
The human body comes with few spare parts, and unlike some other animals, we’re not generally able to regrow a part that has become damaged or lost. We’ve been working on creating functional replacements for centuries (think of George Washington’s...
by Bruce Brown | May 20, 2016 | General News, Medical
A new method of finding and removing ovarian tumors is in the development and testing stage by researchers from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital. The problem is that by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it’s often at a...